Phillip Adams AO (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, humanist, social commentator and satirist. Insignia of a Companion of the Order of Australia. ... is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Note: broadcasting is also the old term for hand sowing. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... This article discusses Humanism as a non-theistic life stance. ... A commentator is an individual who comments on sports, politics, current events, or public issues; synonyms include pundit. ... 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ...

Early years

Adams ("The Reluctant Gentile") was born in Maryborough, Victoria, the only child of Congregational Church minister the Reverend Charles Adams. Maryborough is a city in Victoria, Australia, located on the Pyrenees Highway, 70 kilometres north of Ballarat, 166 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, in the Central Goldfields Shire. ... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Governor HE Mr John Landy Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Area 237,629 km² (6th)  - Land 227,416 km²  - Water 10,213 km² (4. ... Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs. ...

His parents separated when he was young. He has written:

"Mother dumped [his father] in favour of a rather sleazy businessman... - a sociopath who tried to murder me... I spent my latter part of my childhood trying to protect my mother from this psycho."[1]

Of his education he has said: "I was forced to leave school before completing my secondary education and the only job I could get was working in advertising."[2]

Adams joined the Communist Party at age 16, whilst employed in advertising, but left at age 19. He has often compared dogmatic belief in Communism with dogmatic belief in Roman Catholicism. In modern usage, the term communist party is generally used to identify any political party which has adopted communist ideology. ... Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...

Career

Adams began his advertising career with Foote Cone & Belding and later became a partner in Monahan Dayman Adams (now Publicis Mojo), which made him a millionaire. He developed such successful campaigns as "Life - Be In It"[3], "Slip, Slop, Slap"[4], "Break down the Barriers" and "Guess whose mum has a Whirlpool", working with such talents as Fred Schepisi, Alex Stitt, Peter Best and Mimmo Cozzolino. He left the advertising industry in the 1980's. Frederick Alan Schepisi AO (born 26 December 1939) is an Australian film director and scriptwriter who was born in Melbourne, Victoria. ...

He wrote regular columns for The Age and The Bulletin. He currently writes twice weekly for Rupert Murdoch's The Australian. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Bulletin is an Australian weekly magazine, which has been published in Sydney since 1880. ... Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. ... The Australian (informally referred to as The Oz) is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ...

Broadcasting

2UE

In the 1990's Adams presented a late-night program on Sydney commercial radio station 2UE. 2UE is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia. ...

Late Night Live

Adams took over Late Night Live[5] on Radio National from Richard Ackland. Late Night Live is broadcast across Australia on ABC Radio National as well as on Radio Australia shortwave radio and the World Wide Web. ABC Radio National is an Australia-wide radio network with many various programs, involving news and current affairs, arts, music, society, science, drama and comedy. ... ABC Radio Australia is the international shortwave radio service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australias public broadcaster. ... This article is about an album. ... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ...

A serious discussion of world issues, the programme is tempered with Adam's gentle and ironic humour.

Frequent contributors include Bruce Shapiro[6] and Beatrix Campbell. At times, Adams refers tongue-in-cheek to his listeners as "the listener" or "Gladys", as though he had only one listener. Recently, Adams has begun introducing the show saying "Good evening Gladys and Poddies", in reference to the shows growing podcast listener base. An orange square with waves indicates that an RSS feed is present on a web page. ...

As of 2007, the current theme music is Elana Kats-Chernin's Russian Rags, which Adams renamed "Waltz of the Wombat".

The previous music was Bach's concerto for oboe, violin and orchestra in C Minor, BWV 1060: III. Allegro. Bach in a 1748 portrait by Haussmann Johann Sebastian Bach (pronounced ) (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it...

Criticism

Adams has been criticised as being an example of left-wing bias in the ABC.

The call to give equivalent broadcast time on the ABC to a "right wing Phillip Adams" began with John Hewson in 1993. Dr John Hewson Dr John Robert Hewson (born 28 October 1946), Australian Liberal politician and economist, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of a working-class, politically conservative engineer. ...

In July 1996 Prime Minister John Howard said in an interview with journalist Peter Cole-Adams: "I think one of the weaknesses of the ABC is that it doesn't have a right-wing Phillip Adams. I think that would be a good idea. It would make a lot of people feel things were better".[7]. John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. ...

Former ABC managing director Jonathan Shier is reported as saying:[8] Jonathan Shier is a British-born media executive who is best known for his controversial tenure as managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ...

Shier: It is hard - it has been hard - when I've asked the people in charge of editorial to give me the example of the right-wing Phillip Adams.

Adams: Well, it was echoing a repeated statement of John Howard's.

Former ABC board member Michael Kroger asked (15 May 2002) "why [...] is it not possible 'for someone to hold down a presenter’s position who is clearly on the other side of Australian politics?'"[9] Michael Norman Kroger is a businessman and a powerbroker within the Victorian division of the Liberal Party of Australia. ...

Adams responded with a "Public Forum" programme on 9 May 2001, asking "Where is the Right-Wing Phillip Adams?"[10]

In July 2002 Imre Salusinszky wrote a satirical piece for Quadrant, "My Life as Phillip Adams: A Memoir" [11]. Imre Salusinszky (born 1955) in an Australian conservative columnist and English literature academic. ...

Film work

Adams played a key role in the revival of the Australian film industry during the 1970s [12]. He was the author of a 1969 report [13] which led to legislation by Prime Minister John Gorton in 1970 for an Australian Film and Television Development Corporation (later the Australian Film Commission) and the Experimental Film Fund. Ned Kelly depicted in the first Australian feature-length narrative film The cinema of Australia has a long history and has produced many internationally-recognized films, actors and filmmakers. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Sir John Grey Gorton GCMG AC CH (9 September 1911 – 19 May 2002), Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia. ...

Together with Barry Jones, Adams was a motive force behind the Australian Film and Television School which was established under the Whitlam government. Barry Jones, AO, is an Australian politician. ... Hon Gough Whitlam Edward Gough Whitlam (born July 11, 1916), Australian politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia, was the only Australian Prime Minister to be dismissed by the Governor-General. ...

He also played a key role in the South Australian Film Corporation[14], which was created in 1972 and became a model for similar bodies in other Australian states. The South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) is a statutory body established under the 1972 South Australian Film Corporation Act in South Australia. ...

Adams played a key role in the establishment of the Australia Council and the Australian Film Development Corporation, later known as the Australian Film Commission. The Australia Council for the Arts (commonly called the Australia Council) is the Australian Governments arts council. ... The Australian Film Commission is a government agency established in 1975 as the Australian Film Development Commission. ...

As head of delegation to the Cannes Film Festival he signed Australia's first co-production agreements with France and the UK. He was Chairman of the Australian Film Institute, the Film and Television Board of the Australia Council, the Australian Film Commission, and Film Australia. He helped establish the Australian Caption Service , which provides services for hearing impaired television viewers - and the Travelling Film Festival to take quality films into rural areas.

In the late 1960's Adams wrote, produced and directed (as well as serving as cinematographer for) his first feature film "Jack and Jill - A Postscript", the first feature to win the Australian Film Institute Award - and the first Australian film to win the Grand Prix at an international festival.

Adams produced or co-produced other features including the critically-panned but hugely popular film adaptation of Barry Humphries' The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, directed by Bruce Beresford, which became the most successful Australian film ever made up to that time. Other films include "The Naked Bunyip", "Don's Party", "The Getting Of Wisdom", "Lonely Hearts", "We Of The Never Never", "Gendel Grendel Grendel", "Fighting Back" and "Hearts And Minds". The Adventures of Barry McKenzie is a 1972 Australian film starring Barry Crocker, telling the story of an Australian yobbo on his travels to the United Kingdom. ... Bruce Beresford (born 16 August 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated Australian film director, writer, and producer. ... Dons Party is a 1971 Australian play set during the 1969 Australian federal election. ...

Other work

Adams chaired the Commission for the Future, established by the Hawke Government to build bridges between science and the community. In 1988 the Commission won a major United Nations award for educating Australia on the issue of greenhouse and climate change. Hon Bob Hawke Robert James Lee Hawke (born December 9, 1929), Australian trade union leader and politician, was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400,000 years For current global climate change, see Global warming. ...

He chaired the National Australia Day Council. Its principal task was to choose the Australian of the Year. He also chairs the Advisory Board for the Centre of the Mind at the University of Sydney and the Australia National University in Canberra, and has been a board member of Greenpeace, CARE Australia, The National Museum of Australia, Adelaide's Festival of Ideas and Brisbane's Ideas at the Brisbane Powerhouse. Greenpeace protest against Esso / Exxon Mobil. ... CARE logo CARE is one of the largest international relief and humanitarian organizations in the world, with programs in nearly 70 countries. ... The powerhouse is located in a converted power station Brisbane Powerhouse is a performing arts and cultural venue located in the Brisbane suburb of New Farm, Queensland, Australia. ...

Adams is the author or editor of over 20 books, including The Unspeakable Adams, Adams Versus God, The Penguin Book of Australian Jokes, Retreat from Tolerance, Talkback and A Billion Voices, Adams Ark (published in 2004) and (with Lee Burton) "Emperors of the Air" (Allen & Unwin). Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Robert Manne has described Adams as "the emblematic figurehead of the pro-Labor left intelligentsia". [15] Adams had a close relationship with every Labor leader from Gough Whitlam to Kim Beazley, advising on public relations, advertising and policy issues. However, on July 19, 2006 he was reported as saying of the Labor Party: Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (, pronounced Goff), is an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. ... For Kim Beazleys father, Kim Beazley senior, see Kim Edward Beazley. ...

"They hate me," he says. "I think Kim Beazley is a serious error. I think the party's been going downhill federally ever since Keating left... The Labor Party's hardly worth feeding federally."[16]

Personal life

Adams' partner is Patrice Newell. He has has four daughters, three to his first wife, and one to Ms Newell. The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

He lives on Elmswood, a cattle property near Gundy in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. He also has a home in Paddington, an inner suburb of Sydney. Adams is a collector of rare antiques, including Egyptian, Roman and Greek sculptures and artifacts. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State Motto(s): Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004... A street in Paddington including a pub, a restaurant targeted at tourists and Paddington Station in the background. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ... For the province in the Philippines, see Antique (province) and for the band, see Antique (duo). ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ... In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor. ...

He has written "I'd been an atheist since I was five" [17] and has an interest in spiritual matters, particularly life after death, yet is often heard to iterate his commitment to atheism. For information about the band, see Atheist (band). ... Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ... The afterlife, or life after death, is a generic term referring to a continuation of existence, typically spiritual, experiential, or ghost-like, beyond this world (eg. ...

In 1979 a portait of Phillip Adams by artist Wes Walters won the Archibald Prize. Wes Walters, Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize. ... Marcus Willss winning painting in 2006, The Paul Juraszek Monolith, was based on this print by an earlier Marcus, Marcus Gheeraerts The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia. ...

Honours and awards

• Order of Australia AM 1987
• Order of Australia AO 1992
• Human Rights Medal awarded by the Australian Government's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (2006)
• Australian Humanist of the Year 1987 - Awarded by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies
• Raymond Longford Award (the Australian film industry's highest accolade, in 1981, for "Outstanding Services to the Australian Film Industry"
• Senior ANZAC Fellow (1981)
• Henry Lawson Arts Award (1987)
• Living Treasures by the National Trust in 1998
• Honorary doctorate, Griffith University
• Honorary doctorate, University of Sydney
• Honorary doctorate, University of South Australia
• Honorary doctorate, Edith Cowan University
• Australian Republican of the Year 2005 (Australian Republican Party)
• Walkley Award for Broadcast Journalism (2004)
• United Nations Media Award (2005)
• Windgrove Laureate (2004)
• Responsibility in Journalism Award 1998 (SCICOP) New York
• Australian Centenary Medal (1 January 2001) [18] "For service to Australian society in journalism"
• Multiple AFI Awards for various films
• A minor planet, discovered by R.H McNaught at Siding Spring (1990) was named "Phillipadams" by the International Astronomical Union (1997)
• Honorary Jew, The Australian Jewish Council

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Bibliography

• The Unspeakable Adams
• The Uncensored Adams
• Classic Columns
• Adams Versus God
• Harrold Cazneaux: The Quiet Observer
• Talkback: Emperors of the Air
• Retreat from Tolerance
• Conversations
• A Billion Voices
• Adams Ark (2004)
• The Inflammable Adams
• More Unspeakable Adams
• Adams with Added Enzymes
• The Big Questions (with Professor Paul Davies)
• More Big Questions (with Professor Paul Davies)

With his partner Patrice Newell, he is the author of several joke books: Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

• The Penguin Book of Australian Jokes (1994)
• The Penguin Book of Jokes from Cyberspace (1995)
• The Penguin Book of More Australian Jokes (1996)
• The Penguin Book of Schoolyard Jokes (1997)

Filmography

Film

• Kitty and the Bagman
• A Personal History of the Australian Surf
• Hearts and Minds (1966) (producer)
• Jack and Jill: A Postscript (1970) (producer, writer, director)
• The Naked Bunyip (1970) (producer)
• The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972) (producer)
• Don's Party (1976) (producer)
• The Getting of Wisdom (1978) (producer)
• Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981) (producer)
• Fighting Back (1982) (executive producer)
• Lonely Hearts (1982) (executive producer)
• We of the Never Never (1982) (executive producer)
• Abra Cadabra (1983) (producer)
• Dallas Doll (1994) as Radio Announcer
• Road to Nhill (1997) as God (voice)

Hearts and Minds refers to two separate Vietnam War related subjects. ... The Adventures of Barry McKenzie is a 1972 Australian film starring Barry Crocker, telling the story of an Australian yobbo on his travels to the United Kingdom. ... Dons Party is a 1971 Australian play set during the 1969 Australian federal election. ... Grendel Grendel Grendel is an animated film based on John Gardners novel and starring Peter Ustinov. ... Fighting Back, released in 1988, is a live album by the NWOBHM band Cloven Hoof. ... Lonely Hearts is a 2006 American film directed and written by Todd Robinson. ... Abracadabra (sometimes spelled Abrakadabra) is a word used as an incantation, considered by some to be the phrase that is pronounced most universally in other languages without translation. ... Road to Nhill is a 1997 Australian comedy-drama film. ...

Television

• Adams' Australia (part of BBC TV's contribution to Australia's celebrations for its bicentenary).
• The Big Questions with Professor Paul Davies
• Death and Destiny filmed in Egypt with Paul Cox.
• More Big Questions with Professor Paul Davies
• Face The Press SBS
• Short Cuts ABC
• Four Corners
• This Day Tonight
• Parkinson
• 7:30 Report
• Clive James
• Will Be Back After This Break (7 Network)
• Two Shot series 1 and 2 (ABC)
• Short and Sweet (2 6-part series, ABC)
• Talking Heads
• Compass
• This Day Tonight
• 7.30 Report
• Sunday
• A Current Affair
• Sixty Minutes
• Australian Story
• Counterpoint with William F.Buckley Jr
• We'll Be Back After This Break (series, Seven)
• CNNN
• The Chaser's War on Everything
• Compere, Australian Film Institute Awards Telecast
• Co-presenter, the Australian Bicentennial Celebration

Two hundred year anniversary. ... For the member of the National Assembly for Wales, see Paul Davies (Welsh politician). ... CNNN stands for Chaser Non-Stop News Network. It is a 2003 show on ABC TV which parodies CNN and other cable news networks. ... The Chasers War on Everything (often shortened to The War by The Chaser cast) is a satirical television comedy series broadcast on ABC TV in Australia. ...

References

• Macnab, Geoffrey. "Bazza turns 30", The Age, March 7 2003. 

External links

• Biography (ABC)
• Broadcaster Phillip Adams
• Phillip Adams AO, Social Commentator and Columnist
• Why We Need a Revolution Now
• "I Am Proud That."
• An Afternoon with Philip Adams
• My Life as Phillip Adams: A Memoir (Imre Salusinszky)
• ABC "Dimensions"